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15 Dec 2013

VAADI HERBALS TEMPTING CHOCOLATE & MINT SOAP - REVIEW

Hey Girls,

I have this
unexplained soft corner in my heart for handmade soaps/skin care. They look
very pretty and have that all natural vibe to them. They are more special than
the regular ones. Today I am here with a handmade chocolate and mint soap from
vaadi herbals. This one is even more special because this is the first soap I am
trying in 2013. Yup.! I have excessive dry skin and I love shower gels/creams
better. So, am pretty excited to share my views on this one. YAY! to my first
soap in 2013!!!

The soap is
named as the TEMPTING CHOCOLATE & MINT SOAP-Deep Moisturising Therapy.

Claims, Ingredients, MRP & other info:

It comes
in a cardboard
boxlike the medimix soap ones and it is wrapped in two covers to
retain the fragrance. The outer most one is that self-sealing transparent polythene
cover and the inner one is a thin polythene wrap. Even with all these layers of
wrappings on, I could smell the warm, intoxicating chocolate fragrance.

Outer Self sealing cover

Inner polythene Wrap

The soap looks
like this.

Obviously the
brown one is chocolate and green one is mint.

Though the
soap is a combo of two flavours, the chocolate one is much dominant.

During the
first use, I noticed brown color getting mixed with the lather as I rubbed the
soap against my skin. The brown lather stopped in a few minutes and the soap
produced normal white lather.

Thankfully the
soap did not produce that detergent soap kind of lather. It lathers moderately.
When loofah is used on the soaped area, it lathers even more but nothing
artificial. It washes off easily too.

The soap cleanses
the skin well and did not dry out my (very) dry skin. I did not get
the stretchy feeling which I always get when I use soap. I could not completely
ignore the moisturizer though (Thanks to the super dry winter weather).

The fragrance
is very good. It smells of hot chocolate. It is very soothing in these dry and
chilly winters. I love to take a hot water bath with this one before going to
bed. I
find it very relaxing and calm.

I tried it on
my face as I forgot to take my face wash with me for my bathing session. It
cleansed well but I found this to be little drying for my facial skin.
I also noticed one two pimples forming the next morning. As I have pimple prone
skin that breaks out at the slightest disturbance, I cannot fully blame this
soap for my breakouts.

After a couple
of uses, this soap broke into two (as pictured) which made me wonder
if the Choco-mint soap is actually two soaps held together with some kind of
adhesive that got washed off with repeated uses.

It melts
like glycerine soap if kept in contact with water. (Remember how gooey
pears soap goes when you forget to take it out of the water filled dish?).

Overall, I am
happy with this soap. This will be one soap which I will finish completely.

Maniac’s
Rating: 3/5

Love it for
the chocolate fragrance and for being dry skin friendly. Price does not hurt too.

Hope you girls found the review useful. Have you tried any handmade soaps? If so which is your favourite one?